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Gonzaga University in the College Hall Building, Room 203
502 E. Boone Ave
Spokane, WA
United States

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In celebration of National Archaeology Day, the Spokane Society of the AIA will host a presentation by local college students entitled "Dishing out the Dirt: Student Experiences at Archaeological Field Schools". The hour-long group presentation will feature four undergraduates who will share the treasured moments, trials and tribulations -- the "dirt", as it were -- of their recent fieldwork experiences in Jordan and Bulgaria. The event will take place on the campus of Gonzaga University in the College Hall Building (502 E. Boone Ave), in Rm. 203 at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. Read more »

Archaeologist/Egyptologist Donald P. Ryan will describe his latest
discoveries from his ongoing excavations in
Egypt's famed royal cemetery, the Valley of the Kings. Ryan is a Faculty
Fellow in Humanities at Pacific Lutheran
University, Tacoma, Washington. Read more »

Prof. Georgia B. Bazemore (Eastern Washington University) Modern viewers are quite familiar with the late Classical images of Aphrodite which pair her with the child deity Eros, also known as Cupid. But earlier tradition, especially outside of Athens, paired Aphrodite with another figure more fitting with her role as the Goddess of Sexual Desire, that of her young lover, Adonis. Dr. Bazemore draws upon her decades of research and excavation of the Adonis temple at Paphos, in Cyprus, known to Homer as the birthplace and home to Aphrodite herself. Dr. Read more »

John Dorwin, Eastern Washington University Using photographs, both vintage and recent, this lecture will include discussion of the background of crashed naval aircraft as archaeological sites, the training program that prepared 18,000 naval pilots for carrier duty, and the recovery of three examples of aircraft which crashed during such training, including an SBD-2 Douglas Dauntless, and F6F-3 Grumman Hellcat, and an F4U-1 Vought Corsair from the freshwaters of Lake Michigan. Read more »